Facebook sensation Restaurant City may have closed shop in 2012, but we’ll never forget its foray into Dr Pepper product placement!
Tag: Product Placement
Mr. Pibb: The 3D Interactive Game
Run Like Hell
Even in the distant future of Run Like Hell, humans require guarana to perform at maximum efficiency. Lucky for us, Bawls is here to help.
In fact, the developers were so stoked about this Bawls machine (or so contractually obligated to feature it) that it showed up in this promotional screenshot for Run Like Hell.
Thanks to Frank Cifaldi of The Video Game History Foundation for tracking down the PR shot!
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Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia
Jolt Cola — all the sugar and twice the caffeine — is powerful, expensive stuff in Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia!
Virtual Hills and Laguna Beach
It’s a Pepsi machine from Virtual Hills and Laguna Beach, a virtual world launched in 2007 to promote MTV’s popular scripted reality shows!
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Half-Life 2 (Beta)
This placeholder model from the Half-Life 2 Beta is perfect, because nothing says “dystopian future” like Pepsi winning the Cola Wars.
While we’re at it, this wood grain soda machine model also appeared in pre-release versions of Half-Life 2. [Source]
Splinter Cell
Splinter Cell’s Chinh Cola is already in the archive, but that SoBe Adrenaline Rush machine is new. Thanks for the screenshot, @4JonahS!
25 to Life
25 to Life for the PlayStation 2 features some outstanding product placement for Vitaminwater and Lil Jon’s Crunk energy drink!
Homefront
Resistance movements rely on energy to succeed, and what better way to replenish that energy in Homefront than a Full Throttle energy drink?
MyCoke
MyCoke (also known as Coke Music and Coke Studios) was a Habbo Hotel-inspired online game that ran from 2002–2007. It featured a few different soda machine styles.
NBA 2K15
Coach breaks it down in front of a Sprite machine in NBA 2K15!
Parasite Eve 2
Aya chats with an injured SWAT team member beside a Coke machine in Parasite Eve 2!
Maniac Mansion Deluxe
Maniac Mansion Deluxe brings back the Pepsi machine from the original (with a slightly updated look, of course)!
PlayStation Home
These Idolmaster vending machine from PlayStation Home’s Namco Arcade Center dispense souvenir soda cans. Or, if you’re in the mood for something a little more extreme, the Toxade vending machine pictured below appears in the Sodium mini-game hub.
Finally, we have some Grade-A product placement in the form of a Coca-Cola vending machine.
